Game Over for Istomin
Level 26
: 200,000/400,000, 400,000 ante
After doubling with the dreadful 
that reduced his stack to very few big blinds, Aleksei Istomin was all in soon after again and was called by Aleksandr Gukov.
Aleksei Istomin: 
Aleksandr Gukov: 
The board of 
left Istomin drawing dead, and he was eliminated in 41st place. His former table will break shortly before and just before the end of the second level of the day.
| Player | Chips | Progress |
|---|---|---|
|
24,000,000
3,000,000
|
3,000,000 |
|
Busted |
and Said Butba looked him up out of the big blind with 
. The board came 
and Zhuravlev survived over on the feature table.
and Mikhail Galitskiy bet 800,000 from the hijack after Artem Metalidi had checked in the big blind. With the action back on Metalidi he raised to 2,500,000 and Galitskiy called. 
and both players checked with the river card the 
. Metalidi proceeded to move all in for 8,500,000 and Galitskiy gave himself 30-seconds to think before he called. 
for a flush, and Galitskiy was made to show 
in the hijack and Gleb Tremzin on the button pocket up the 
. Tremzin three-bet to 2.4 million with a stack of 13.8 million and Nikulin moved all in, Tremzin snap-called.
and Nikulin was reduced to fewer than eight big blinds.
flop, Zuev checked and called a bet of 1 million by Lipovka. On the 
turn and Luke Thursfield bet 14 million. This sent Dmitriy Agafonov into the think tank and he eventually let go.
